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18.09.2026
12:15
The Beloretsk Interdistrict Court in Bashkiria fined a 63-year-old local resident 30,000 roubles (approximately US$335) for nine comments on the social network VKontakte, including a statement that Putin “doesn’t need any negotiations” with Ukraine. He was found guilty of discrediting the Russian army (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences).
12:03
A student from Mari State University reported that students are being required to provide a screenshot proving their participation in the vote in order to get credit for their labour law course. By law, participating in elections is voluntary, and students are not obliged to confirm their political choices as part of their studies.
11:51
Artyom Kamardin, convicted in the “Mayakovsky case,” has been assigned to dismantle Soviet-era gas masks at the penal colony, where, according to him, they are not provided with personal protective equipment. Kamardin’s wife, Alexandra Popova, said that working conditions in this production are more dangerous than in other jobs at the colony.
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11:47
Pavel Kalashnik, the Yabloko Party candidate for the Biysk constituency No. 45, reported a bot attack on his Telegram channel: within a few minutes, more than 70 accounts subscribed to the channel, which had a total audience of just over 100 people. He said the attack might have been organised to get the channel blocked, so he has temporarily closed access to it.
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11:46
Sergey Demin, an activist from Moscow, was fined 50,000 rubles (approximately US$550) under the article on “discrediting” the army for holding a picket with a poster reading “Peace to the World” on Triumfalnaya Square. Demin timed his picket to coincide with the State Duma “elections” and the “opportunity to change everything.”
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11:46
In Solnechnogorsk, a town near Moscow, around 70 observers from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) were not allowed into the polling station, with the reason given being a “non-working flash drive.” According to them, they are preparing a joint complaint to the territorial election commission about being denied entry to the polling station.
11:31
More than 250 out of 430 observers from the Yabloko party were unable to start their work; observers were completely barred from the Kurortny and Primorsky districts of St Petersburg. Yabloko candidate Dmitry Anisimov has filed a complaint with Territorial Election Commission No. 33, demanding that the commission’s inaction be declared unlawful.
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11:12
In Ryazan, a city in central Russia, a citizen of one of the Arab countries has been detained on suspicion of preparing to become a mercenary (Part 1, Article 30; Article 359 of the Criminal Code). The man has been taken into custody. According to investigators, he allegedly tried to join a Ukrainian armed formation to take part in combat operations against the Russian Armed Forces.
10:39
In Tyumen, a major city in Siberia, former police officer Vladimir Nekrasov was detained on 17 September. Sources link this to the criminal case against lawyer Dmitry Gorin. According to those familiar with the matter, Nekrasov may have been charged with extremism, and his home was searched.
10:39
The artist Andrei Akuzin from Komsomolsk-on-Amur, a major city in the Russian Far East, was removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list of terrorists and extremists on 16 September—he had been added to it after his death in a remand centre in April. Akuzin was detained on 2 April on suspicion of posting anti-war comments, and on 8 April he died in the remand centre, reportedly by suicide, according to friends and human rights advocates.
10:39
On 18 September, at a polling station in St Petersburg, an observer from a parliamentary candidate was denied access due to not having permanent registration in the city. The commission members initially refused to accept their complaint, but after a repeated request, the complaint was registered.
10:38
Nikolay Toropov, head of the Moscow branch of the “Rassvet” party, stated that detained State Duma candidate from the “Greens” party, Yulia Kuznetsova (Kharchenko), may be held at the “Yuzhnoye Medvedkovo” police station in Moscow. This information is based on Toropov’s statement.
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08:37
The Kiselyovsk City Court fined Alexei I. 5,000 rubles (approximately US$55) for unlawful missionary activity (Part 4, Article 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offences). Based on materials from the Centre for Countering Extremism, the court ruled that the man had violated legislation on freedom of conscience and religion.
07:23
Observers from the Communist Party and State Duma candidate Anton Artsibashev were not allowed into polling stations in the closed administrative-territorial formation of Sibirsky, Altai Krai, a region in Siberia. Artsibashev reported that the communists have lodged a complaint with the Central Election Commission of Russia.
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17.09.2026
23:30
In Rostov-on-Don, a major city in southern Russia, Yabloko election monitor Boris Miklyukov was fined 10,000 rubles (US$110) for hooliganism (Part 3, Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code) over a comment on social media. Miklyukov and his parents had their phones and electronic devices confiscated.
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23:29
The Kyiv District Court of Simferopol fined a local resident 30,000 roubles (approx. US$330) under the article on “discrediting” the army. According to the court, she filmed a video about the “disorder” at a military site and sent it to a Telegram channel.
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23:28
In Moscow, Yulia Kuznetsova (Kharchenko), a candidate for the State Duma from the Green Party, has gone missing—she stopped responding after taking a taxi home. The day before, Kuznetsova’s team had reported that her observer had been denied entry to a polling station and there were forged documents regarding the withdrawal of observers.
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22:40
The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put Vladislav Gorin, host of the podcast “What Happened,” on the wanted list. In June, a criminal case was opened against the journalist for involvement in an “undesirable” organisation because of six episodes of the podcast released in 2025.
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22:18
TEC offices did not allow around 100 observers appointed by Yabloko candidate Sergei Mitrokhin to work at polling stations in central Moscow. On 16 September, Mitrokhin filed a complaint with the Central Election Commission, but as of 17 September they reported that it was still under review.
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22:16
Olga Shchekina from Donetsk, after serving a 10-day administrative arrest for petty hooliganism, was taken away by men in balaclavas in Rostov-on-Don on 17 September, according to human rights defenders. Shchekina’s whereabouts are currently unknown.
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